These are still very early in development.

I need some advice on how to improve them, any references, or tutorials on weapon skins that would apply well here would be useful. Personal tips would be more welcome.

http://www.fragspersecond.net/skins/garandpreview.jpg


http://www.fragspersecond.net/skins/tommypreview.jpg

Comments are welcome as well.

Edit: I realize it gets a little dark on the garand's near side.

It seems my host is being lame....Give me a minute.

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I'll ready my advice once you get your problem fixed Vandal. :)

I posted the same time he posted.

It should be sorted now.

I posted the same time he posted.
Ah i see. Sorry, i was basing too much on knowledge. i kid i kid
Vandal: I like the new look on both weapons especially the garand! I have to question the thompy tho. A bit odd on the right picture, how it's all a pixelated mess but on the left it seems fine. I was going to say it would just be the picture but the hands/sleeves beg to differ. No further comments and no advice whatsoever :p Already liking the look.

Black or zinc phostphating wasn't used until very late war. That means the metal parts on both of your skins should be grey if you're shooting for realism here. As a general rule, larger parts, such as the reciever, barrel, buttplate, swivels, ferrules, barrel bands and most visible parts in the trigger group tend to be parkerized grey. Smaller pieces, such as the rear sight knobs, apertures and front sight assembly tend to be black parkerized. The picture on the main page of "detail strip" showcases this quite nicely.

Also, for super-detailed pics of every last part on the M1, and good references of how your skin could look if you're shooting for realism, head to these links and go through all of them :)

http://www.civilianmarksmanship.com/nomenclature.html
http://www.civilianmarksmanship.com/fieldstrip.html
http://www.civilianmarksmanship.com/detailstrip.html
http://www.civilianmarksmanship.com/reassembly.html

Good luck :) Keep us updated.

*Edit - Also, I'm yet to see ANYONE make a Winchester M1 skin in all these years of DoDing and Winchester made half a million, only during WW2. I owned one, and I'd love to see a replacement skin with the Winchester logo on it. SN 1311108

http://img430.imageshack.us/img430/7748/97664121866zh.jpg

Originally posted by Zao

*Edit - Also, I'm yet to see ANYONE make a Winchester M1 skin in all these years of DoDing and Winchester made half a million, only during WW2. I owned one, and I'd love to see a replacement skin with the Winchester logo on it. SN 1311108
http://img430.imageshack.us/img430/7748/97664121866zh.jpg

Just for you, the file is officially a Winchester M1 :)

Originally posted by Vandal
Just for you, the file is officially a Winchester M1 :)


W00t! :D :donrluvs:

It looks good me likes :D
can't wait for the download :D

Add a little more contrast and get rid of the mip mapping, will make it look 10x better.

Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg
get rid of the mip mapping, will make it look 10x better.

How?

when you save the file as a .vtf, you should be able to find a little checkbox labled "no mipmap".

Originally posted by Makabi Gafera
when you save the file as a .vtf, you should be able to find a little checkbox labled "no mipmap".

Ah! Cool! Thanks.

Originally posted by Vandal
Just for you, the file is officially a Winchester M1 :)

That alone would be a nice change making it worth using, but the skin itself is looking very nice. looking forward to a release

Yeah vandal, get on this thing. I want this tommy!

Whens this being released its good lol?